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This section describes the installation on Unix based systems. For installation on a single machine, we recommend to use Ubuntu as OS.

a. Install necessary Perl packages

The required Perl packages are listed here: Perl Packages
Install these perl packages on your system (e.g. by using cpan).
Additionally you need to install subversion and dos2unix (on linux systems).
If you use Ubuntu, you can download and execute the install_packages.sh shell script. This script will install all the necessary packages and programs.

Here you can download the install_packages.sh then change the permission which allows you to run it.
I did downloaded that and put it in my desktop. Then I right click on it—> properties and then change the permission. Afterwards. I opened the terminal and set it to the desktop

Create a directory where xQuest/xProphet will be installed. e.g. /home/xquest/xquest

Download the zip or tar folder from the download section. and copy into the installation directory.

Unzip the folder. The structure will then be /VERSION/xquest/…

change to the /installation folder. Edit the first line of the “install_xquest.sh” script and execute it. Please note: This script executes /cgi/changeheader.pl which changes the header of the cgi files, if your installation path for perl is not /usr/bin/perl you have to edit the script.

Add the /xquest/bin directory to your PATH variable, so that the programs can be found.